Negotiating Insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900 by Catherine Cox

Negotiating Insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900

Catherine Cox

276 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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This book explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in nineteenth-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of peopl...

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